After the Esports God Retires

The game featured in this story is League of Legends. The teams and players in the story are not based on real people. Before retiring, Dek, the starting mid laner for PLG, was the team's undisputed carry on the pro scene. After retiring, Fan De'en became a full-time dog dad whose eyes were only for his own pup. Fan De'en meeting Sheng Duoduo was both a matter of chance and inevitable. It was inevitable because he'd adopted his dog from the kennel where she worked. It was chance because he kept running into her at all kinds of different times and places. What Fan De'en didn't know was that, without his realizing it, Sheng Duoduo saw him only as a kind of medicine. She had a secret she couldn't tell anyone, and he happened to give her a brief moment of relief and relaxation. But he wasn't angry. Instead, he felt fortunate, because it proved just how important he was to her. They hadn't gotten together just because of the dog. There were many, many other reasons, and many, many possibilities between them. One day, a Weibo account with only three followers posted: [I'm a trash-tier Silver player, and I just absolutely destroyed PLG's former mid laner, now their coach, in a solo match on the Korean server. Come on, bros, type “beast” in the chat for me!] Before long, Fan De'en liked the post and commented, “Chat.” Fans: ???